Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.30
Liaison Srinivasan Raghavan
Submission Date Feb. 16, 2018
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University of Missouri
AC-5: Immersive Experience

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Srinivasan Raghavan
Sustainability Manager
Sustainability Office
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Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution, including how each program addresses the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability:
The College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources offers a sustainability-focused immersive study abroad semester in Costa Rica. Students experience the rainforest first-hand and study agriculture/environment at a world-class international college specializing in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. EARTH (Escuela de Agricultura de la Región Tropical Húmeda) University has 400 full-time students from throughout Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It offers a unique, student-centered experiential-learning system where hands-on experience is stressed.

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